The Sun (Lowell)
Circulation 42,899 Daily | 47,897 Sunday (as of 2011)[3] | |
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The Sun, also known as The Lowell Sun, is a
The Sun
The newspaper's headquarters are in the first floor of the former American Textile History Museum building in downtown Lowell. Before March 18, 2007, the newspaper occupied a succession of offices on Kearney Square, about half a mile away. One of the old news buildings, locally called "the Sunscraper," is a landmark high-rise topped with a huge neon "Sun" sign. The paper's most recent former home is across the street.[4]
The paper's editorials have, for decades, espoused a conservative bent in a city and state where Democratic voters overwhelm Republicans. In the 1970s, editor and firebrand Clement Costello, who was known for walking around in a cape, wrote that the U.S. should annex Mexico and was credited with helping to ruin John Kerry's chances of winning the 5th Congressional District seat in 1972. In 2004, the newspaper again made waves when it endorsed President George W. Bush for re-election instead of Kerry, who was then the junior U.S. senator from Massachusetts.
People
The Sun was once known beyond its circulation area as the home base of the late columnist Paul Sullivan, who until 2007 hosted a nighttime talk show on WBZ radio in Boston. Before the newspaper moved, he would regularly tout scoops from "Lowell's great newspaper at 15 Kearney Square."
One of the paper's most famous alumnus is Jack Kerouac, a Lowell native who worked as a sports reporter for The Sun before going on to greater fame as poet laureate to the Beat Generation.
Another Sun alumnus is Tom Squitieri, who won the Overseas Press Club Madeleine Dane Ross Award for his reporting on divided Cambodian refugee families living in Lowell and Thailand.[5] The Lowell Sun is the smallest independent newspaper to have won an OPC award.
History
Print shop owners and brothers John and Daniel Harrington founded the paper as a
The paper remained in the hands of John Harrington's descendants—Thomas F. Costello, his sons John H. and Clement C. Costello, and grandson John H. Costello Jr. with a certain amount of drama and feuds
When he purchased the paper, MediaNews CEO
Following MediaNews' purchase (through The Sun) of
See also
- The Sun, other similarly named publications
References
- ^ a b "MediaNews Group -- Communities". www.medianewsgroup.com. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
- ^ National Public Radio. Archivedfrom the original on 2021-05-21. Retrieved 2023-12-01.
- Audit Bureau of Circulations. 2011-09-30. Archived from the originalon 2012-10-27. Retrieved 2012-03-01.
- ^ a b Lafleur, Michael. "Sun Rising on a New Era". The Sun, Lowell, Mass., March 18, 2007.
- ^ Overseas Press Club of America. "The Madeline Dane Ross Award 1986". Overseas Press Club of America. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
- ^ Smith, Geofrrey (May 1987). "Cain and Abel". Boston Magazine. General Onefile: 174+.
- ^ a b Lewis, Diane E. "Singleton Buys Lowell Sun from Costellos; Paper Had Been Under Family Ownership 119 Years." The Boston Globe, July 9, 1997.
- ^ Vaznis, James. "Media Company Merging Print Sites; $7M Plan Includes Move to Devens." The Boston Globe, August 1, 2002.